asset flip

noun

A form of shovelware involving the creation of numerous generic video games based on premade assets that the developer has purchased from elsewhere.

Meanings

nounasset flip (plural asset flips)

plural asset flips

  1. video gamesA form of shovelware involving the creation of numerous generic video games based on premade assets that the developer has purchased from elsewhere.

    I think the main issue with Withering Rooms is the graphics. A lot of people go to the store page and it doesn’t make a lot of sense to them, because it looks like this low-budget, asset-flip kind of game[.]

    2026 February 1, Troy West, quotee, “WITHERING REALMS”, in Edge, number 419, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 42
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APA

asset flip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asset%20flip

MLA

“asset flip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asset%20flip. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “asset flip,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asset%20flip.

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